Re: ! in dired mode

[Luc Teirlinck]

Frederic Fouvry wrote:

   In recent Emacs versions (see below for the number), it does not seem
   to be possible anymore to use ! to operate on `.' or `..'.  While I
   can live with the limitation on `..', it is annoying for `.', for
   instance when I just want to do a find on the current directory in
   Dired, I cannot do this anymore, and have to open the parent directory
   and look for the wanted directory, or to type M-x find-dired.  Each of
   these contain more key strokes than just ! find.

^!find will usually be less keystrokes than going to the line `.' is
on ands then !find.  Certainly at most one more.  (Or two if you count
RET to go back.)  After ^, you do not need to look for the wanted
directory, ^ carries you there automatically.

Sincerely,

Luc.